Growth

This work tells a story of personal experience, it marks a moment in time. This story starts years ago with surgery to remove a large tumor in my body. The narrative evolves exploring the fearful discovery of a foreign mass, acknowledging the network of support from family and friends, expressing my vulnerability within the medical system, and finally to honoring the process of healing from this event. I am using ceramics to question the relationship between aesthetics and function and even question the polarity between the beautiful and the grotesque.